The analysts made a study on the insecure practices that were used and it was concluded that the most used passwords are those trivial dictionary words, short passwords, and those lacking the combination of numeric characters and capital and lower letters.
Some more major results mentioned that:
Around 30% of the users select the passwords wherein the length is less than or equal to six characters. Almost 60% of the users select their corresponding passwords from a very limited alphanumeric character set.
In 110 tries, a hacker will be able to access a new account on each second or around seventeen minutes to hack into about a thousand accounts. In addition, almost half the number of users utilizes slang words, dictionary words, names, or trivial passwords like adjoining keyboard keys, successive digits, among others.
The password that I thought to be the most popular belongs to the top 20 of the popularity of the password. After the famous “123456” follows “12345” and “123456789”.
Some more popular passwords on the list are as follows:
The rest of the passwords are rated by popularity:
Well one thing is for sure. Try to enforce the usage of stronger passwords like “long-term strategy” or maybe you can check out other lists on the internet to avoid making use of banned passwords. And always remember that “123456” is the first on the list of the most popular.
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